SIMUTools'09

About David Nicol's Keynote

Wednesday, March 4th 2009, 9:00-10:00

Melding Power Devices, Electrical Simulation, and Computer Simulation (A Testbed for Power System Security Evaluation)
More About David...	David Nicol - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliate Professor, Department of Computer Science Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory
	Abstract: Security of critical infrastructures is a pressing issue for our society. Systems such as the electrical power grid are controlled by computer/communication networks, and have the potential that an intruder remotely gain access to the network and adversely affect control of the infrastructure. Interest is high in technology that helps protect such networks from penetration. Interest is also high, therefore, in means of assessing how effective protective technologies are. This talk describes a testbed that combines a mature simulation of electrical power generation/transmission, a powerful computer/communication network simulator, and actual hardware and software used in the power grid. Using the testbed we can demonstrate vulnerabilities in the power grid, as well as study the effectiveness of real and modelled security technologies in large-scale networks that control critical infrastructure.
Bio: David M. Nicol is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests encompass modeling and simulation, high performance computing, and security. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the ACM, and was the inaugural recipient of the ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award.

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